Arenafoot Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 (edited) Spies in the Night by graywest Don't try to adjust the "Color / B/W" switch on your 2600 - this is a "Noir" game. You are a spy in a trench coat and fedora trying to... well, I haven't quite worked out that part of the story yet. But there is a rotating lighthouse in the distance. If the beam falls upon you and you aren't completely hidden behind the wall, a sniper will end your life in a hail of bullets. Push the joystick left and right to walk in that direction. The fire button will make your player duck. This is helpful to hide behind shorter segments of the broken wall. Cross to the right side of the screen to score 100 points. The broken wall is randomly generated each time. Once you pass a certain number of screens, the level will advance and the wall sections will become more sparse. You get 100 points for passing each screen, and 10,000 points for clearing each level. Right now, there is no limit to the number of lives you have. If you die, just push the fire button to try again from the left side of the screen. Limited lives are in the works. I'm also planning to set up the timer minikernel to add some pressure to the game. (done) Note: if flashing screens bother you, this game flashes the background once every 3 seconds or so as the lighthouse beam passes over the player. Just FYI. ANOTHER UPDATE: Added a "detonator" to the end of each level. If you reach it before time runs out, push it down to blow up the lighthouse! Also added a new title screen. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/238911-spies-in-the-night/?do=findComment&comment=3250605 (no music or sound) SpiesInTheNight 060415.bas.bin Edited June 21, 2015 by arenafoot RickR, TrekMD, The Professor and 1 other 4 Quote Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted June 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 (edited) new update......sound & score added! SpiesInTheNight 060615.bas.bin Edited June 9, 2015 by arenafoot Yo-Yo and The Professor 2 Quote Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted June 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 I tried my hand at making a label for this game..... This is my first attempt at designing any Atari label ever. I figured I'd go with the text label since this game is kinda based on the 1940's and the older type label would go along with it. RickR and Yo-Yo 2 Quote Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yo-Yo Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Did you make this game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted June 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 no, its the latest entry under the homebrew thread over at AA....but I made the label with the use of labelmaker2600.com Quote Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted June 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2015 (edited) another update!........... Three major additions: Graywest added a spy-themed song to the title screen. He also added an option to turn off the background flash if that sort of thing bothers you. Just flip the right difficulty switch to "B" to turn off the flash, or flip it to "A" to turn the flash on. Finally, he fixed a game-breaking problem that happened on the higher levels (around level 4 or 5) - when the difficulty ramps up, the game would sometimes create such a large gap in the wall that it wasn't physically possible for the player to cross it between lighthouse rotations. That problem should be fixed now. SpiesInTheNight 061315.bas.bin Edited June 14, 2015 by arenafoot The Professor 1 Quote Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted June 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2015 FYI - alot of the new Atari VCS/2600 homebrews are posted here: http://pdroms.de/news/atari2600/ The Professor 1 Quote Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted June 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2015 (edited) This title has been completed! http://atariage.com/forums/topic/238911-complete-spies-in-the-night/?p=3259381 SpiesInTheNight.bin Edited June 21, 2015 by arenafoot Quote Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted October 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2016 Al over at that other site, just made my cart yesterday!!! Sweet! Quote Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted October 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2016 I got it in the mail tonight - will have to try it out tomorrow! MaximumRD 1 Quote Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted October 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2016 The cart came out awesome! And plays like a dream too! Big thumbs up to Al and AA!!! Quote Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted May 4, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2017 For those of you who do not follow the "other" website forums and/or a member of the FB group called "Atari 2600 Homebrew", I wanted to let you know that this title will be "officially" released soon thru Scott Dayton (NEO Games) either thru the FB group and/or the other forum. More details will be coming soon.......... https://www.facebook.com/groups/Atari2600homebrew/permalink/298376587250181/ http://atariage.com/forums/topic/238911-complete-spies-in-the-night Quote Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted May 4, 2017 Report Share Posted May 4, 2017 Cool. The label looks very nice. Arenafoot 1 Quote 🖖 Going to the final frontier, gaming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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